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FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

So I had installed Metro Exodus with the PC Game Pass awhile ago but just went to play it today and I could only get it to launch once. Apparently I missed the 100 reviews on the MS Store page saying it�s a broken port. I made it maybe 45 mins in before it crashed and now I can�t get it working. Is this a well known thing?

# ¿ Sep 10, 2019 02:37

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# ¿ Apr 26, 2024 11:24

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

I did a bunch of updates to the PC and I will try it again tomorrow but from what I�ve read that does not solve the issue

# ¿ Sep 10, 2019 05:16

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Watch Dogs 2 is pretty long

# ¿ Sep 10, 2019 13:42

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

I will never understand why the elite controllers are a thing. The first gen ones were $150 and the new ones are like $250? I�m really struggling to find a good reason why someone should pay like 8x the cost of a regular controller for one.

# ¿ Sep 11, 2019 14:32

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

LIVE AMMO ROLEPLAY posted:

They feel much more sturdy but I'm not paying twice as much for a controller.

It�s way more than twice as much now, even if you pay the full $60 retail for a regular controller

# ¿ Sep 11, 2019 15:21

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

I�ve been able to get Metro Exodus working, thankfully. I didn�t want to have to buy it. I fully expect to get the �bad ending� for the third game in a row, however.

# ¿ Sep 18, 2019 15:15

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Fanatic posted:

I'm playing through Exodus now and yeah, I'm surprised by how many areas require you to go full stealth & zero deaths for the moral point when your first instinct is to shoot everybody considering it is a FPS and said people are dressed like bandits and shoot you on sight.

Really enjoying the game though! I'm just about up to the last act and only had one crash on the One X and two glitches (one where characters were stuck in a T-pose and the other I got stuck inside a rock) but were fixed by loading an earlier save.

I enjoy the Metro games but their 'morality system' has been garbage in every game

In the first one you basically had to look up how to get the best ending since the game doesn't really tell you what you need to do in order to get it. A lot of it involves interacting with NPCs during visits to some of the populated metro stations. I don't even remember what the deal was with the 2nd one but I know it was at least somewhat clearer what you needed to do.

I'm glad that the 3rd game is expanding the story beyond 'you are stuck in the metro fighting Nazis/Commies/mutants/bandits to get to a place'. That and the open world sections are a nice change from cramped corridors.

# ¿ Sep 19, 2019 00:08

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Yeah, they did two games exclusively in the metro that had a couple of short segments outside and I think that was enough.

I will say that the game is getting a little on the nose with having increasingly evil enemies, from the Luddite cult to the cannibals to now the slavers. Even one of the characters wonders out loud what other hosed up people they are going to run into.

# ¿ Sep 19, 2019 01:37

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Monday_ posted:

Hasn't the industry backed off pretty hard on pay to win microtransactions? I can't think of anything that has them except for Battlefront 2.

Yes but they are doubling down on loot boxes (see the trailer for NBA 2K20 which emphasizes that they have a literal casino you can go to to win fake currency)

# ¿ Sep 25, 2019 18:53

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

DariusLikewise posted:

Halo/Gears/COD:MW were all cool and new styles of shooters when they came out and GOW and MW got tired and old by their 3rd sequels and Halo as soon as Bungie handed it off

I hope everyone is ready for Halo:Anthem where there is barely a story and they�ll just fill it in later (note: poor sales of Halo:Anthem have forced MS to cancel their roadmap, sorry).

# ¿ Sep 25, 2019 23:26

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

You definitely need to play Dishonored 1's full DLC since that introduces the villain of 2. She's not in the main story of 1 except maybe in some of the lore reading.

# ¿ Oct 5, 2019 00:08

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Finished Metro Exodus after stopping for a bit to marathon through Control. For the first time in playing this series I was able to get the good ending. I was expecting until the last minute of the finale for the game to say I was going to get the bad ending, but thankfully this game is not as bad as the first two in figuring out how to get the right ending.

# ¿ Oct 13, 2019 08:12

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

The game would be very interesting if you had to play it in Big Head Mode with slappers only

# ¿ Oct 14, 2019 14:16

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Fanatic posted:

Nice, it's a great game. I still have to do a bad ending/ranger hardcore run through to get the 100%, but with this 200+ game backlog it's hard to find time & motivation to play through things I've already played when I could be playing something I haven't.

My only complaint is that the final level of the game is very much original Metro for all of the good and bad. I also think it's a bit misleading to say that there are three 'open world' areas, when the 3rd of those is almost entirely linear.

# ¿ Oct 15, 2019 00:54

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

twistedmentat posted:

I'm almost done Dishonored, but even though i tried really hard not to slaughter my way through the game there were a number of situations that i absolutely could not peacefully sneak by, even distractions did nothing. Does the second game have similar issues or did they not stick the only way through a level a narrow hallway with 3 guys standing back to back?

It's been awhile since I played the first one, but I remember that the best way to get through that game stealthily was to upgrade the Blink power to max as early as possible so you could bypass a lot of guards, and also upgrade the bow so you could shoot guys from a distance with tranqs if need be

# ¿ Oct 15, 2019 01:02

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

I will gladly take NV Remastered in Space, thank you.

# ¿ Oct 16, 2019 15:00

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

I will buy it if I can recreate 9/11 in detail

# ¿ Oct 20, 2019 02:08

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

GUI posted:

Crackdown 3 is fun, just embarrassingly run of the mill for something that was in development for 6+ years. You'll still enjoy it if you liked the previous ones and want more but with some QoL improvements.

It also looks like a last gen game despite being in development for that long

# ¿ Nov 1, 2019 03:10

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

DR2 and 3 are the best ones

DR1 I quit pretty quickly because it controls like poo poo and they expect you to kill fast bosses with those controls. But more importantly, the survivors� AI is awful and they would die constantly. DR2 is a massive improvement in that way.

# ¿ Nov 11, 2019 19:27

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

DR3 ran fine for me, from what I recall

# ¿ Nov 11, 2019 22:15

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

I haven't gotten around to playing DR4 but I watched someone play the first parts of the game and it feels like they are out of ideas. It goes back to the wreck of the mall from the first game, and even though DR3 ended with the government helping to cure the cause of the zombies, the zombies are back again for *reasons*

# ¿ Nov 14, 2019 02:38

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Bardeh posted:

Rage 2 ended up appearing on PC Gamepass despite them saying it would be console only. I installed it and played for an hour and it doesn't seem that good though

I remember the general reviews saying it�s just very mediocre and once again the story is bland

# ¿ Nov 16, 2019 20:15

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

SUNKOS posted:

I think Titanfall is a dead IP but thankfully both games have active playerbases on the Bone still. TF1 has a small playerbase (a few hundred, I think) but you can still get full lobbies and it still owns.

I think there is a TF3 in development?

# ¿ Nov 16, 2019 22:10

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Real hurthling! posted:

The best xbox is a pc

It's been great for me this gen because I didn't need to buy an Xbox to have the exclusives I wanted, due to GamePass

# ¿ Nov 18, 2019 00:17

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

HALF LIFE 3 CONFIRMED....to be a VR game

# ¿ Nov 19, 2019 01:53

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

SchwarzeKrieg posted:

So I think my original Xbone is dead. I'm thinking it's maybe the hard drive but I'm pretty awful at diagnosing these things. It will power on but puts out no signal through the hdmi port and turns off after about a minute, hard drive seems to make just a clicking noise. It had been getting noticeably slower for awhile now, just as far as load times and menu navigation and whatnot. I've taken it apart, cleaned it out, removed things, put things back in, switched hdmi cables, and done several sacrificial rituals to no avail. Anyone have experience with this? I don't have any spare laptop drives laying around and at this point I'd almost prefer to just replace the whole console rather than get a new drive and wait for something else fail in a couple months.

Now's the best possible time to get a replacement cheaply with all of the console sales

# ¿ Nov 24, 2019 17:43

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

I think the S is $199 and that's the cheapest

# ¿ Nov 24, 2019 18:17

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

ethanol posted:

the xbox one x is supposed to be more powerful anyways, the ps4 pro came out a year earlier and was $100 less.

having owned both, the difference is marginal.

the xbox is gone however, as it had no games. the ps4 has some seriously awesome exclusives and im not keeping a $500 xbox around for marginal increases on multiplats

Xbox is also mostly redundant if you have a PC now, as you can get all of the exclusives on Game Pass at launch

# ¿ Dec 15, 2019 00:28

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Is there a specific reason why Rockstar never put RDR1 on PC, or did they just not feel like it was worth their time

# ¿ Dec 15, 2019 00:35

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

LIVE AMMO COSPLAY posted:

Red Dead Redemption 2 has a second screen app so that gimmick isn't dead yet.

This is news to me

Another gimmick that did nothing was the little speaker on the DualShock4 that would sometimes put out audio in certain games. It's used in Death Stranding but I had to change it since it became very irritating to have a baby crying out of the controller all the time.

# ¿ Dec 29, 2019 05:58

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Quantum of Phallus posted:

$700 lmfao

If that is real, MS should just sit out the next console generation

# ¿ Dec 30, 2019 19:08

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

DEEP STATE PLOT posted:

gtaiv has the worst vehicle physics in any game ever made and you are legitimately fuckin brain damaged if you got any enjoyment out of that miserable fuckin horse poo poo of a driving model

GTAV is a better game in every way but that was a big improvement

# ¿ Jan 6, 2020 16:02

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Zat posted:

However, Ballad of Gay Tony is fun, just the right length, and you get the beautiful world and fun physics of IV without most of its bad stuff.

It�s the total opposite of the main story

They actually have some crazy and fun missions like in previous GTAs instead of forcing you to go on dates or take your cousin bowling

# ¿ Jan 10, 2020 15:41

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Stux posted:

what xbox exclusives would you say compare

Ryse, the greatest game ever made

# ¿ Jan 11, 2020 21:17

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

I wondered if this was going to end up being an issue

https://twitter.com/pushsquare/status/1219990639653392384?s=21

# ¿ Jan 22, 2020 18:24

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Blind Rasputin posted:

Pretty clear that port is made to plug this peripheral in:

Oh wow the new Kinect looks great!

# ¿ Feb 5, 2020 15:49

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

I had also heard some positive things about Sunset Overdrive, and played it on GamePass. It's alright, but honestly it already feels very dated with the comedy and writing.

I think the main issue is that a lot of the missions are very repetitive. Then they force you into these 'protect the base' missions which aren't very interesting after the first couple. The weapons are unique enough but you aren't going to use a lot of them in my experience.

# ¿ Mar 22, 2020 01:41

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

So if anyone remembers the game The Culling, which is one of the earliest BR games, the original game is being relaunched on Xbox tomorrow but with the weirdest �pay to play� model I�ve seen.

The game costs $5.99. Each match costs a �token�, and you get one match for �free� when you buy it. If you win, you get another one, but if you lose, you either have to pay the weekly or monthly subscription price or for some reason they will let you buy packs of �tokens� for different prices. It�s very bizarre and I don�t expect this to go well.

This is the same company that launched a Culling 2 that was for sale for maybe a week before the devs pulled the game and issued refunds. That game was a really awful PUBG clone that looked like a lovely mobile game and played worse.

https://twitter.com/xaviant/status/1260217324495405060?s=21

# ¿ May 13, 2020 14:17

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

I�ve watched people play The Culling on PC and it�s alright but it�s not that interesting. Just different than most of the other BRs because it�s melee/bows only. No guns.

# ¿ May 13, 2020 16:13

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# ¿ Apr 26, 2024 11:24

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

DrNutt posted:

Holy poo poo there should be some sort of IRL achievement for playing Control while extremely high. I am doing it right now and my brain is yelling at me and telling me this is going to be a really bad time.

Maybe you should Take Control

# ¿ May 15, 2020 15:40

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